Our Lady Of Mercy, crowned by Angels, with St. Francis,(Right) John the Evangelist, (Left) St. Barbara? (Far Left) Paul (Left - Up) (XIV) - Chiesa Di San Pastore

Our Lady Of Mercy, crowned by Angels, with St. Francis,(Right) John the Evangelist, (Left) St. Barbara? (Far Left) Paul (Left - Up) (XIV) - Chiesa Di San Pastore - Ripatransone

Photo: Italo Perazzoli

The Virgin Of Mercy, is a subject in Christian art showing a group of people enveloped by her cloack as a sense of protection.

The Virgin of Mercy was very popular in Italy during the XIII - XVI Centuries.

Above the Virgin there are two flying angels, during the phase of incoronation of the Virgin.

These angels, are dressed in red, in order to create a strong contrast with the blue sky.

Behind our Lady of Mercy, John and Francis there is a yellow curtain, to symbolise a familiar scene.

On the far left, there is St. Barbara, and above her St.Paul (partially ruined).

The principal attribute of St. Barbara is the tower. (Martyr of the beginning of the IV Century)

According to the apocryphal sources, she was the daughter of a king of Nicomedia, who decided to imprison her daughter, inside a tower, to preserve her daughter from the gazes of other men.

Barbara once christian, decided to live for ever inside the tower built by her father, but with the add of a window in honor of the trinity.

Her festivity is every 4th December and usually she is represented as a young woman
St. Barbara protects of architects, firefighters, miners etc.

On the right of our Lady there is St. Francis recognisable by his stigmata, by his youngness and by the dark franciscan's habit with girdle. (Born in Assisi in the 1181)

His festivity is every 4th October and he is the protector of poets, growers, merchants.
On the left there is St. John the Evangelist, recognisable by his youngness and long blond hair.

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